The Department, the engineer and other duly authorized employees of the town and/or district bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter upon all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The Department shall have the right to set up on the user's property such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling or metering operations. The Department may at reasonable times have access to and copy any records, inspect any monitoring equipment or method required by the town's wastewater discharge ordinance and sample any effluents which the applicant or operator of such source is required to sample. Where a user has security measures in force, the user shall make necessary arrangements so that upon presentation of suitable identification, personnel from the Department will be permitted to enter without delay.
The Department and other duly authorized employees of the town bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the town holds an easement for the purposes of but not limited to inspection, observation, measurement sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the sewerage works lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.